Addressing Links Between Climate and Public Health in Alaska Native Villages
As emissions of heat-trapping bases accumulate in our atmosphere, Earth's polar regions are warming more quickly than at lower latitudes. The rapid environmental changes that...
Climate change is endangering sacred land
Since time immemorial - before the European colonization of what is now known as the United States - tribes of the Pit River Nation have...
He Wrote a Gardening Column. He Ended Up Documenting Climate Change.
In the summer of 2019, Jeff Lowenfels told me, one of his friends successfully grew okra in Anchorage. Lowenfels could not believe it. The crop was...
Alaska Underwater: Climate Won’t Wait
Imagine if your entire community began to disappear into the ocean. Many communities don’t have to. In June, severe flooding sent a majority of the Kwigillingok,...
Alaska: Biden to suspend Trump Arctic drilling leases
US President Joe Biden's administration will suspend oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pending an environmental review.
Biden Suspends Drilling Leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The decision blocks, for now, oil and gas drilling in one of the largest tracts of undeveloped wilderness in the United States...
Dutch Harbor is nation’s top fishing port for 23rd straight year
Dutch Harbor has been named the nation’s top fishing port by volume of seafood landed for the 23rd consecutive year. The Aleutians East Borough —...
NOAA’s new climate ‘normals’ highlight warming trend
Every 10 years, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration analyzes data from its thousands of weather stations and releases new climate “normals,” providing temperature touchstones for...